This is an analysis of the poem Pentucket that begins with:
How sweetly on the wood-girt town
The mellow light of sunset shone!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccaadd eeeeaaeeeecc ddffgg hhbbcc eeeeiieejj cceeiieekk ddll aaaaiiee ffddllaaee bbllddeeeeXk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,12,6,6,10,10,4,8,10,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111 01010111 11111101 10010101 010001001 01000101 1001001010 010101010 11010001 010101001 01010101 01111101 110010101 11111101 01110101 01110101 01010111 011000101 10110111 010100101 01110101 11010101 10110101 01010101 010100101 010100101 01011111 11011101 11010101 11011101 11101011 10111101 100001001 11010100 101011111 01000101 10010101 11011111 10011101 10110001 11011101 11011101 110111010 110111010 11010101 11000111 11011101 11010001 11100111 11011101 11011111 11010111 10110100 01011101 01011101 11011111 110100101 110111001 11010111 01110101 10110101 11010101 10111101 11110101 110101111 11111111 01011101 01011101 11010101 11111111 11011101 010010101 110101001 11110101 11111111 10011101 101010011 11010101 11010101 11010111 110100101 010011111 110010111 11010111 11010111 11010101 11110100 01001101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 318
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 88
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; nor, then, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, nor, no, and are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Pentucket;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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